Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. Grub can boot from xfs now. Lilo always could. If you install xfs as the root filesystem on older versions of Debian Stable the installer is smart enough to realise that Grub won't cut it, and it installs Lilo. I noticed this behaviour has changed recently but I don't recall exactly when it changed. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though, really doesn't need a high-performance fs. ext2 is more than adequate. I certainly have no objections to seperating /boot if it makes the bootloader happy. Rob -- Email: rob...@timetraveller.org IRC: Solver Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.1.10.1003102342360.18...@castor.opentrend.net
/boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)
On 2010-03-08 18:35, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? shivers Why not? [This is so going off topic.] grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though, really doesn't need a high-performance fs. ext2 is more than adequate. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. Mike Ditka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b95a673.1050...@cox.net
Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)
Ron Johnson wrote: grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. Grub is doing fine, although it's true it had some issues in the past (just read about them, actually). Can't talk about lilo. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though, really doesn't need a high-performance fs. ext2 is more than adequate. Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b95a973.1050...@stammed.net
Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations), so no need to bring it into mine ;) And no, it wouldn't hurt, and you are welcome to have /boot as a folder (instead of partition) into your filesystem. Probably many people already do. Which is why I specifically mentioned in the first post in this thread that I (possibly unlike most others) use a separate partition for /boot. The reason being exactly that I (certainly unlike most others) want to do checksums of it, and that only works if it is a separate partition. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuVra4ACgkQ+VSRxYk440+Z9ACdGlvkfytSGgd88PCzKeYe+AkQ AXUAoJ4qfhhfqQSqTe76Hae9lU7j27U2 =eC+2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b95adae.2060...@web.de
Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)
Clive McBarton wrote: thib wrote: Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations), so no need to bring it into mine ;) Hehe, don't worry, actually I was just wondering about XFS [hurting as boot filesystem?]. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b95b0a4.7090...@stammed.net
